samuraijake
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I have an 80 GB Western Digital Special Edition hard drive with the 8 MB cache. I first did a clean install with Windows XP and everything was fine. A few weeks later random errors began littering my computer. Almost all due to file corruption or things like that. So I formatted the hard drive, tried to reinstall XP, and now XP will not install. It will begin installing files preparing for installation, but some files are always not able to be copied. Occasionally, it will complete that portion of installation and procede to actually install windows where it will again have a file copy error of some sort. This was using NTFS. So I formatted the drive to FAT32 and installed windows 98 [first edition]. It took several attempts and the installation had some file copy errors also, but it installed and currently boots up. The errors still run rampant. Random files are corrupt. Windows occasionally is unable to access my registry. Programs wont install because there are file copy errors. The mobo is an Asus A7V133 with a 750 mghz Duron and PC133 SDRAM @ 133 FSB. I tried the hard drive on both the regular ATA/66 and ATA/100 controllers with no difference. I removed peripheral cards and the problem remained. I purchased the same Western Digital Drive without the 8 MB cache and the problem still occured [although I wasn't able to install XP the first time like I was with this drive]. Does anyone have any idea what is going on because I am ready to throw this thing out the window? Any help is appreciated. Jacob Brubaker🙂😉🙂
